“Photo of an unknown missing boy who is staying in the Ganganagar Police station for the last 45 days”
What FACTLY found
The same photo was being circulating on social media at least since 2015. The Sri Ganganagar district police and the then External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj have confirmed that the boy seen in the photo was not caught or taken into custody in Rajasthan’s Sri Ganganagar district. The boy in the photo went missing from his home in Pakistan’s Charsadda district on 06 June 2014. In 2015, a few social media users have shared the same photo mentioning that he was taken into custody in Makkah, ...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 2 September 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 5 September 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
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